Moses recalls receiving new tablets and the ark made to hold them. He asks what the LORD requires: to fear him, walk in his ways, love him and serve him with all the heart, and to love the stranger.
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first , and come up unto me into the mount , and make thee an ark of wood .
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest , and thou shalt put them in the ark .
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood , and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first , and went up into the mount , having the two tables in mine hand .
4 And he wrote on the tables , according to the first writing , the ten commandments , which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly : and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount , and put the tables in the ark which I had made ; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
6 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera : there Aaron died , and there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah ; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath , a land of rivers of waters .
8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi , to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD , to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name , unto this day .
9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren ; the LORD is his inheritance , according as the LORD thy God promised him.
10 And I stayed in the mount , according to the first time , forty days and forty nights ; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
11 And the LORD said unto me, Arise , take thy journey before the people , that they may go in and possess the land , which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
12 And now, Israel , what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God , to walk in all his ways , and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul ,
13 To keep the commandments of the LORD , and his statutes , which I command thee this day for thy good ?
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD'S thy God , the earth also, with all that therein is.
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people , as it is this day .
16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart , and be no more stiffnecked .
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods , and Lord of lords , a great God , a mighty , and a terrible , which regardeth not persons , nor taketh reward :
18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow , and loveth the stranger , in giving him food and raiment .
19 Love ye therefore the stranger : for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt .
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God ; him shalt thou serve , and to him shalt thou cleave , and swear by his name .
21 He is thy praise , and he is thy God , that hath done for thee these great and terrible things , which thine eyes have seen .
22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons ; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude .